Okay I get it you shouldn't go out and intentionally injure a player and have financial bonuses for it.
However if memory serves me right, every NFL player on the defensive side of the ball is getting paid to hit players, tackle running-backs and receivers, sack quarterbacks, and make big plays that can change the tempo of the game. Now I played a little football in school and I heard my coaches say some pretty violent things to us about the other teams; "we're gonna kill them", "lets put them in the ground", "send them crying", "lets punish them". Now when the NFL started and players were getting paid to play you are now getting paid to potentially hurt other players. Lawrence Taylor wasn't getting a bounty as far as I know but when he ended Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann's career by sacking him and snapping his leg he was intentionally going after him as hard as he could the hit him, and getting paid to do it. Possibly unknown to the public but well known to the NFL there are "incentives" in most NFL contracts. Say a player rushes for 1400 yards and his contract gets him a $200,000 bonus if he gets 1500 yards he is gonna do whatever it takes to get the bonus. A running-back not drawing the picture for you how about a defensive lineman, say Michael Strahan has it in his contract the if he breaks the single season sack record he gets a $1,000,000 bonus he will even convince a certain Green bay Quarterback to take a "fall" so he can get the record and bonus. There are incentives in almost every contract in the NFL especially Defensive players. Which will makes players do whatever they have to to get the stats and make them smile about it. If a player gets a bonus if he causes 10 fumbles a season he is gonna go head hunting to get to that stat and make the bonus and that is getting paid the potentially injure players.
I listened to an interview with Warren Sapp about the Saint's bounty system and he was totally against it and he said it was wrong and does not belong in football, however Warren Sapp played college football at "the U" Miami University, and they had a bounty system for years there. The rapper Luther Campbell was part of 2 Live Crew and even wrote a song about "the U". He payed defensive players $50 here $100 there for knocking players out of games, injuring players and all kinds of statistical milestones.
Which is hypocritical. I am tired of here all these players that are appalled by this, and saying that it doesn't belong in the game when it is part of the game and will always be part of it. Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner, fined players for blindsiding hits, late hits, defenseless hits and now this bounty system however the NFL is selling pictures and videos of all these hits on their websites, and how much money has the NFL made of the press coverage of the bounty system. The hypocrisy that is Roger Goodell will continue even after he is no longer the commissioner.
Sean Payton was suspended for 1 season, the GM Mickey Loomis was suspended for half the season, and Gregg Williams was suspended indefinitely, and it's not over more suspensions are coming for the players.
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